When most visitors flock to North Carolina’s famous mountains or beaches, this 4,200-acre riverside sanctuary remains delightfully under-visited, offering miles of trails where sometimes your only ...

The biggest winner at the 2025 Juno Awards wasn’t there to accept her awards.

Ninety-two years ago, the American Goldfinch became Iowa’s state bird. Today, Iowans are calling for a state horse, fish and ...

American sports fans are no strangers to grand spectacles. From the roar of NFL stadiums to the nail-biting drama of NBA playoffs, the United States knows how to put on a show. Yet there’s one global ...

A reader sends in this posting today from the personal weblog of Cardinal Roger Mahony ... reduce his public role was unprecedented in the American Roman Catholic Church, Mahony can still act ...

Kennedy recently told Fox News that by letting the highly pathogenic bird flu spread through flocks ... the policy might lead importers to ban American products. The resulting mass poultry ...

More than 170 species of North American wild birds – including ducks, geese, gulls, owls, eagles and others – have been infected with bird flu. Take precautions around sick or dead wild ...

Where does that leave people with pets or backyard chickens? Scientific American spoke with experts about managing bird flu risks for animals and their owners. If you're enjoying this article ...

Species include the fox sparrow, the American tree sparrow and the dark-eyed junco. Also the red-winged blackbird and the common grackle. Cornell University's Bird lab hosts a BirdCast Migration ...

Do white farmers have it worse than others? Do black South African farmers have it worse than Latin American immigrants who are now turned away at the border or who have, at best, a very slow path ...

Cardinal Robert McElroy took over leadership of the D.C. archdiocese Tuesday, bringing a well-known advocate for immigrant rights to one of the most prominent posts in the U.S. Catholic Church ...